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JAMDA
March 10, 2025
Factors Associated with Receiving Therapy in Long-Term Care Homes for Residents: A Cross-Sectional Study
JAMDA
December 12, 2023
Focusing on Provider Quality Measurement: Continued Consensus and Feasibility Testing of Practice-Based Quality Measures for Primary Care Providers in Long-Term Care
Medical providers in long-term care (LTC) use a unique skillset in delivering comprehensive resident care. Publicly reported quality measures (QMs) do not directly emphasize medical provider competency and their role in care. The impact of providers is understudied and to a large extent, unknown. Our objec...
JAMDA
May 13, 2014
Advanced Technology Care Innovation for Older People in Italy: Necessity and Opportunity to Promote Health and Wellbeing
Even though there is a constant and accelerating growth of the aging population worldwide, such a rapid rise is negatively impacting available home and community services not able to encompass the necessities associated with the increased number of older people. In particular, there are increasing demands ...
JAMDA
October 26, 2020
Evaluating the Effect of COVID-19 Pandemic Lockdown on Long-Term Care Residents’ Mental Health: A Data-Driven Approach in New Brunswick
Long-term care (LTC) residents, isolated because of the COVID-19 pandemic, are at increased risk for negative mental health outcomes. The purpose of our article is to demonstrate how the interRAI LTC facility (LTCF) assessment can inform clinical care and evaluate the effect of strategies to mitigate worse...
JAMDA
February 18, 2022
Guidance to (Re)integrate Caregivers as Essential Care Partners Into the LTC Setting: A Rapid Review
This rapid review aimed to identify the strategies used to (re)integrate essential caregivers (ECs) into the LTC setting, particularly pertaining to principles of equity, diversity, and inclusion. In addition, this rapid review aimed to identify the strategies used during prior infectious disease threats, ...
JAMDA
January 2, 2022
Reimagining Nutrition Care and Mealtimes in Long-Term Care
Poor food and fluid intake and subsequent malnutrition and dehydration of residents are common, longstanding challenges in long-term care (LTC; eg, nursing homes, care homes, skilled nursing facilities). Institutional factors like inadequate nutrition care processes, food quality, eating assistance, and me...
JAMDA
November 7, 2023
Breaking the Cycle: Using Serious Illness Communication to Optimize Care Transition Planning in Serious Illness
It is widely recognized that many older adults in their last year of life will cycle between hospitals and skilled nursing facilities—a phenomenon described as “rehabbing to death.” Several strategies to address this complex problem have been proposed, including developing and testing serious illness commu...
JAMDA
December 5, 2017
Impact of Advanced Practice Registered Nurses on Quality Measures: The Missouri Quality Initiative Experience
The purpose of this article is to review the impact of advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) on the quality measure (QM) scores of the 16 participating nursing homes of the Missouri Quality Initiative (MOQI) intervention. The MOQI was one of 7 program sites in the US, with specific interventions uniq...
JAMDA
April 10, 2020
Practical Steps to Improve Air Flow in Long-Term Care Resident Rooms to Reduce COVID-19 Infection Risk
The potential for spread of COVID-19 infections in skilled nursing facilities and other long-term care sites poses new challenges for nursing home administrators to protect patients and staff. It is anticipated that as acute care hospitals reach capacity, nursing homes may retain COVID-19 infected resident...
